Focus RS will be awd

[Sourskittle]

Spied: Camouflaged Ford Focus RS Tests Near the 'Ring via MOTOR TREND News for iPhone
http://www.motortrend.com/wot/1410_spied_camouflaged_ford_focus_rs_tests_near_the_ring/index.html

 

[rodmoe]

Should be fun to see how this stacks up against the 2015 Golf R and its Audi AWD system...

 

[re-rx7]

waiting.......................

 

[CivicAssassin]

Maybe in a couple years, they'll do the same thing with our FiST. AWD with 250hp/250tq stock would be a dream. Unless they'd offer the same 2.3 ecoboost option!

 

[razorlab]

Should be fun to see how this stacks up against the 2015 Golf R and its Audi AWD system...

It might be the same, Ford and Volvo uses BorgWarner Haldex in their AWD cars, just like the Golf R, Audi TT/S/RS, A3, S3, etc

Audi A4 and above use Quattro which is a traditional AWD system (like subaru, mitsubishi, etc). However Audi makes it confusing because they call the AWD A3/S3/TT/TTS/TTRS Quattro as well, even though it uses the Haldex system.

 

[roosey]

What?!?! Awd? I thought they dumped that idea awhile ago because it was going to weigh too much?

 

[Sourskittle]

Haldex..... BAD ace.

 

[razorlab]

Haldex..... BAD ace.

The newer gen Haldex systems actually work pretty well.

 

[DHM1]

Sadly i may or may not be 100% sure that the US spec RS is not going to be AWD. FWD 2.3L is what we get. 2016.

 

[94Gt5.0]

Wat.

Post some of your credentials and I'll believe ya.

 

[DHM1]

Wat.

Post some of your credentials and I'll believe ya.

Doing the testing i do i cant sorry wish i could. You dont have to believe me but the good news that 2.3L is a powerful little ****er. You can believe the other stuff you read on the internet to. Its all just gossip.

 

[Sourskittle]

Its motor trend... They typically don't deal in rumors. Either way, it will be out of my price range

 

[razorlab]

Maybe in a couple years, they'll do the same thing with our FiST. AWD with 250hp/250tq stock would be a dream. Unless they'd offer the same 2.3 ecoboost option!

As long as Ford is in WRC using the Fiesta, it will be a 1.6L as those are the new FIA homologation requirements.

 

[DHM1]

Its motor trend... They typically don't deal in rumors. Either way, it will be out of my price range

Honestly i hope what i dont know is wrong. I would love an AWD RS. But Europe has always been AWD and i dont see use getting that now even though its a great time to grow and steal that market with there being no more evo.

 

[dyn085]

All of the RS articles are rumor and hype, and they have been for the last couple of years. Most of the articles and information are recycled stories or supposedly from an 'inside source', but if Ford is planning on releasing this next year then they should probably do a little more actual leaking and marketing. Until it's sitting in my driveway I won't care or believe whether it's fwd or awd, but I will continue to hope that it does indeed come to the US.

If it does come to the US then you'll want to start prepping now-the RS model isn't usually around for more than 2-3 years with a specific production run.

 

[razorlab]

But Europe has always been AWD.

The Ford Focus RS's where FWD everywhere.

MK1 RS = FWD
MK2 RS = FWD
MK3 RS = ?

 

[dyn085]

Honestly i hope what i dont know is wrong. I would love an AWD RS. But Europe has always been AWD and i dont see use getting that now even though its a great time to grow and steal that market with there being no more evo.

Credibility -> Out the window

 

[94Gt5.0]

i totally can't tell you what I do, but the old civics were all factory turbo'd rwd cars.

 

[DHM1]

Credibility -> Out the window

i guess so i always thought the old ones in Europe were. I was wrong. I dont know a lot about old fords. But i know what i test so i don need you to approve my credibility thanks.

 

[DHM1]

i totally can't tell you what I do, but the old civics were all factory turbo'd rwd cars.

no wonder why guys that do what i do stay off the forums because people just hate when ever they can. I was wrong about the old ones and was just trying to let you guys know an inside scope of what i know. Oh well. I guess some things never change about how people treat one another.